Odyssey, an AI startup building “world models” that simulate the physical world with realistic physics for uses from video games to robotics, has raised a $310M Series B at a $1.45B valuation, led by Natural Capital with Amazon, AMD Ventures, and GV participating, lifting its total funding to $337M. The company was founded in 2023 by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron, who sold his autonomous-vehicle startup Voyage to GM’s Cruise, and Jeff Hawke, an engineer from UK self-driving firm Wayve. Amazon’s stake comes with a commercial tie, as Odyssey named AWS its preferred cloud provider and will optimize its models to run on Amazon’s Trainium chips, a rival to Nvidia’s AI processors.
